Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). You can give them 20% of the company with a vesting schedule over four years (this way if things don’t work out you don’t lose too much), and you add infinite value to your team. AI : artificial intelligence.

Angel Investor 302

Angel Investor Cofounder Southern California .Net 302

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Building collaboration tools is the next logical step after they've already built the only free open source depository of legal documents --similar to how Github isn't just a place to store your code, but to work on it with others. Remember the scene in The Matrix where Cipher explains reading the program code to Neo?

Open Source 144

Open Source Framework Vesting Community 144

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 8, 2013

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer (P2P) currency system created in open source C++ programming code. It may never get there, large vested interests (e.g. From Investopedia : Definition of ‘Bitcoin’ A decentralized digital currency that enables low-cost payments without the need for central authorities and issuers.

Vesting 149

Vesting Government Algorithm Open Source 149

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Im confident that this business will be able to compensate these two additional principles along the way, after initial risk of investing their time, and will later reward their vesting with an exit strategy. 2- You could also look at setting up an affiliate marketing program. They also wouldnt dillute your equity share.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Diego Basch

JULY 1, 2014

I was told that I was interviewing to replace employee #7 (everyone talked about their own employee number) who was leaving because he was fully vested that month (red flag). They were unrelated to programming for the most part. Maybe they had four thousand employees at the time. At first glance I was impressed with the place.

Silicon Valley 73

Silicon Valley Coder Vesting Open Source 73